Panamanian literature exponents
Gaspar Octavio Hernandez
He was born in Panama City, on July 14, 1893, of humildícimo origin, it is the youngest of the first poets of the Republic and also the most subject to the modernist influence. Self-taught, he showed mastery over the instruments of his art. It was correct verifier, and poet. Hernandez pleases in his will to perfection. imaginative man, made singular things. And he left two books: Iconography (1915), which includes prose stories and critical notes and melodies of the past (1915); to which is added Amethyst Cup (1923), posthumous book. He died on November 13, 1918, an attack of hemoptysis.
Demetrio Korsi classified as "high black, painful, exotic, honest and unfortunate poet who died at age 25 drowned by violent hemoptysis, in the office of La Estrella de Panama, which was newspaper editor."
Works:
Cristo y la Mujer de Sichar
La Copa de Amatista.
Dimas Lidio Pitty
He was born in Potrerillos, Chiriqui province, on 25 September 1941. He made higher education in Santiago de Chile and the University of Panama. He lived in Mexico for several years as a political exile.
He was Director of Cultural Extension of the University of Panama. extraordinary professor at the Autonomous University of Chiriqui and director of the Bitacora Magazine. In the field of journalism, he has been editor, film critic, columnist, foreign correspondent, editor and director of newspapers and magazines, inside and outside Panama. In his column, Agenda Open, in the newspaper El Siglo received the Annual Award Written Press.
Since 1985 he is a full member of the Panamanian Academy of Language. His work has earned awards and recognitions, inside and outside Panama. Memorias del Silencio his poems was included in the anthology of young Panamanian poetry 1991, published in Mexico. Ricardo Miró won the award in 1974, 1978 and 1985. In his award-winning Rumor Crowd, Dimas Lidio Pitty poetic spirit keeps pace with a disenchanted critique of political and social reality of their country.
Camino de las cosas.
El país azul. Cuentos y poemas para niños.
Memorias del silencio.
Estación de navegantes.
